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Warrior Marks; Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women
by Walker, Alice & Parmar, Pratibha
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151000611
- ISBN 13
- 9780151000616
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Harcourt Brace & Co, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. introduction by authors, film credits, acknowledgements, afterward, female genitalia, types of female genital mutilation, contact organisations and advocacy groups, selected bibliography and suggested reading and commissions and photo credits. Illustrated endpapers, showing places visited. Coloured photographic frontispiece, showing a young African women against a house. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs and occasional black-and-white illustrations. 1/4 red cloth spine with gilt coloured titles and 3/4 blue/green boards. Very slight wear to the top and bottom and spine edges and the fund board is slightly bowed. The front hinge is slightly "loose". Black coloured remainder mark to the lower paper edges. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a young African woman dancer (slightly blurred), with authors photograph on the back panel. A little crinkling to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. A written and pictorial record of the making of a documentary film on the subject of female genital mutilation. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 376 pages, last 3 blank,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Women & Feminism; Social History; gender studies; ISBN: 0151000611. ISBN/EAN: 9780151000616. Inventory No: 0103129. . 9780151000616
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0103129
- Title
- Warrior Marks; Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women
- Author
- Walker, Alice & Parmar, Pratibha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151000611
- ISBN 13
- 9780151000616
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Female Circumcision, Genital Mutilation, Africa, West Africa, Anthropology Women & Feminism; Social History; gender studies; Unbranded ISBN: 0151000611 EAN: 9780151000616 Walker, Alice & Parmar, Pratibha Warrior Marks; Female Genital Mut
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gender Studies; Social History;
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Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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